Links for Wednesday March 6th 2019

Install, configure, verify memcached on CentOS | Magento 2 Developer Documentation
I've never worked much with CentOS, but I need to do this in the next week or two.

Links for Monday March 4th 2019

Daring Fireball: Life as a Facebook Moderator
The article he's linking to has been doing the rounds, but it's Mr Gruber's critique I found especially resonant, particular this quote: "There is something fundamentally wrong with a platform that – while operating exactly as designed – requires thousands of employees to crush their own souls." I use Facebook these days, but I still think that broadly, we'd all actually be better off if it was simply shut down. I don't think it provides any net benefit that we did not manage better with other tools before it existed.

Fingerprint.js – The most advanced open-source fraud prevention JS library
Mostly a note to self for the future. Might need this for a bunch of stuff.
Help! None of my projects want to be SPAs | Jason Goldstein
This rings very true. 99% of the project I work on are CUD operation stuff, with limited visual updating. My major use for Vue (which I picked up instead of React) is to simplify my JS form handling a bit, and manage the ajax elements, not really anything clever.

New AI fake text generator may be too dangerous to release, say creators | Technology | The Guardian
If I were a professional fiction writer, I'd be scared right now. This tells me that automating the job of producing fiction just got a generation closer. (I mean, I guess, counterpoint – write an outline, get a novel.)

11 Awesome Laravel Helper Functions (that aren’t in Laravel)
Yes, these are lovely.
TablePlus | Modern, Native Tool for Database Management
This looks like quite a nice multi-engine database tool for Mac. Might be tempted to migrate to it.

Project Alias Smart Home ‘Parasite’ Is the Anti-Alexa – Geek.com
This looks interesting. Wonder if I can build one, and wonder if it really works?
Largest dump in history: 2.7 billion records; 773 million of them unique; 140 million never seen before / Boing Boing
It's time to check and update your passwords again. Relevant useful links contained in post, but also my traditional reminder: use a password manager on all your devices. Do not, do not, do not, *ever* log in to any website with a password it is remotely practical for you to type by hand.

Geocoder
Library of PHP tools for working with different geocoding providers.
Switching the default PHP version on CLI on Homestead
It took me too long to find this, and I know I'm going to need it again.

saintsystems/odata-client-php: OData Client Library for PHP
Useful library for interaction with OData based APIs, with syntax inspired by Eloquent (for better for worse)…